
2021Michal Vitkovsky
Mostly reviews and unboxings. Shiver Me Timbers is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 3 reviews, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.
From BoardGameGeek
Shiver Me Timbers is a highly thematic, strategic sandbox game set in the Golden Age of Piracy. The game is heavily Euro-inspired: It uses a tactical card-based combat system and takes lots of strategic planning to use your available actions to optimal effect and become the most notorious pirate of your era. Each playing will vary as you randomly reveal five of ten vastly different victory conditions: One game, you'll be rescuing your lost family, the next you might have to conquer enemy ships and fortresses or face the hideous Kraken. At the beginning of the game, each player secretly chooses two of the revealed conditions as their personal goals. After all players have chosen, they set-up the fully modular board, each of them trying to find a constellation that optimally supports their hidden agenda. Then they outfit their modable ship miniatures, select their starting abilities and equipment and set sails to fight, conquer, trade, loot, hunt for treasure and much more. During play, every achievement is rewarded with victory points. The game continues until all five victory conditions have been met. There's a final scoring in which players collect extra points if they managed to achieve the goals they chose, and highest point total wins. -description from the designer
Shiver Me Timbers has 6 videos from 5 creators: 3 reviews, 2 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2022 to July 2026.
If you like it, try Raptor, Herd Mentality, Watergate or Maul Peak, which share several of its mechanics.
2020Rich Coombes, Dan Penn
4 - 20 players20 - 30 minLight weight
2023Eduardo Baraf, Keith Matejka
2 players40 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Shiver Me Timbers is a highly thematic, strategic sandbox game set in the Golden Age of Piracy. The game is heavily Euro-inspired: It uses a tactical card-based combat system and takes lots of strategic planning to use your available actions to optimal effect and become the most notorious pirate of your era. Each playing will vary as you randomly reveal five of ten vastly different victory conditions: One game, you'll be rescuing your lost family, the next you might have to conquer enemy ships and fortresses or face the hideous Kraken. At the beginning of the game, each player secretly chooses two of the revealed conditions as their personal goals. After all players have chosen, they set-up the fully modular board, each of them trying to find a constellation that optimally supports their hidden agenda. Then they outfit their modable ship miniatures, select their starting abilities and equipment and set sails to fight, conquer, trade, loot, hunt for treasure and much more. During play, every achievement is rewarded with victory points. The game continues until all five victory conditions have been met. There's a final scoring in which players collect extra points if they managed to achieve the goals they chose, and highest point total wins. -description from the designer
Designer
Michal Vitkovsky
Artists
Andy Monks, Unique Litani Soparie
Publisher
Weltflucht Verlag
Categories
Mechanics